I’ll be writing more on this down the road, but recently heard of yet another family that split apart for all the wrong reasons.  This is a family I would have NEVER expected to splinter or to allow greed or desperation or any unresolved other  issues to trump family love, commitment and loyalty. Far too many business and law firm partnerships go the same route unfortunately.   We must...

I just sent the suggestions copied below to an attorney looking for merger tips to pass along to a client law firm about to merge w/another firm.  Doing so made me realize how often in mergers (whether law firms or other businesses) there’s too little attention paid to our employees and what they are going through (e.g. the culture shifts, fast changes occurring in their workplace and...

Greetings! I’ve previously blogged about telecommuting in regard to handling in-house employees who may be disgruntled over remote working employees  (http://lawbusinesstips.com/2009/06/24/telecommuting-disgruntled-co-workers/) and experiences shared by other companies (http://lawbusinesstips.com/2009/07/08/telecommuting-cost-savings-cisco/).  Today, I found this blog post that...

Hello and Welcome!  My very heavy summer business travels and client visits to our farm lately have prevented me from posting as often as I’d like.  I will do better come September, but in the meantime, grateful for all the business, my GREAT clients and our wonderful farm, family and friends! Be on the lookout within the next month or so for a totally new look to my blog. ….going...